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Chicago Ridge board approves routine payments, awards sewer-cleaning work and adopts consent agenda including EV parking change
Summary
At its Jan. 13 meeting the Village of Chicago Ridge board approved $239,401.27 in expenditures, authorized payment of bills including a $150,589.75 invoice for 2025 sewer cleaning, adopted a consent agenda that includes an ordinance amending electric-vehicle parking rules, and approved a liquor license with one abstention.
The Village of Chicago Ridge board approved routine municipal expenditures and several consent-agenda items at its Jan. 13 regular meeting.
Trustee McFarland moved and Trustee Meslar seconded a motion to expend $239,401.27 from the listed funds; the motion passed on a roll call vote with Trustees Davenport, Kowalski, Lenz, McFarland, Meslar and Siegel recorded as voting AYE and no NAYs.
The board also approved payment of vendor invoices after Trustee Kowalski moved and Trustee Siegel seconded the motion. The itemized list presented to the board included professional-services payments (Kasperek for audit and budget work; Odelson for litigation and collective-bargaining work; Ryan for TIF reporting; Ancel Glink for economic-development work; Clark Baird Smith for labor negotiations) and a $150,589.75 invoice from National Power for 2025 sanitary-sewer cleaning and televising. The motion to pay the bills carried on a unanimous roll call vote.
As part of a consent agenda the board agreed to take several routine matters together, including approval of minutes from December meetings and an ordinance amending Section 50-183 of the village code to address electric-vehicle parking. Trustee Lenz moved and Trustee Kowalski seconded approval of the consent agenda; the roll call vote was recorded as AYE by all trustees present.
Trustees Siegel and Meslar moved and seconded approval of a liquor license for the OLOR Booster Fundraiser scheduled Jan. 25, 2026; the board approved the license with Trustees Davenport, Kowalski, Lenz, Meslar and Siegel voting AYE and Trustee McFarland recorded as abstaining.
The meeting minutes and financial reports for August and September 2025 were made a matter of record. No vote to reject any item was recorded.
The meeting adjourned after brief discussion of plans to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary.
The board’s actions were recorded in the official minutes and roll-call lists submitted by Village Clerk Barbara M. Harrison.
